It seems like we’ve heard more stories about disrespectful middle and high school students. A group of kids bullied an older lady who was their bus monitor. It stopped me in my tracks: How could kids who are so young be so disrespectful? What if that was their grandmother?
Then I saw this story about a group of middle school students, from Junior High School 292 in East New York, were kicked out of the memorial after they threw trash into the reflecting pools. The pools are there to honor and remember the almost 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks.
“They kicked us out because of littering in the water. Kids were throwing baseballs in the pond thing,” said eighth-grader Anthony Price, 14, of East New York, who insisted he wasn’t one of the troublemakers.
Another student said there were kids throwing trash and soda bottles in the fountain and “It didn’t seem like a big deal.”
Some people are arguing that the teachers didn’t prepare the kids for the visit. They argue that the kids weren’t properly told how to be respectful and honor the memory of those who were killed on 9/11.
“That is an absolute disgrace,” said Sharon Hooks, 55, a school teacher from Hartford, Conn. “I don’t care if these children were too young to remember the events of that day. They need to be taught to be respectful.”
These stories are a reminder to us, as parents, to teach our children how to act. Someone needs to tell kids how to be respectful and appropriate. It is sad to see kids being so disrespectful and not caring about those around them. How do you teach your kids to respect memorials? Have you talked to your kids about respecting people who are in leadership roles (like the bus monitor)? What would you have done if any of these kids were yours?
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